DIBs McKellar1936 C 33 Hinten- berger ea l1960 Supersonic Nozzle Smalley Levy Wharton NH 3 Orion RA Chiu ea 1967 C 3 comets Douglas 1936 RC 32 R Walton.

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DIBs McKellar1936 C 33 Hinten- berger ea l1960 Supersonic Nozzle Smalley Levy Wharton NH 3 Orion RA Chiu ea 1967 C 3 comets Douglas 1936 RC 32 R Walton ea HC 3 N SgrB2 Turner Cluster Beam Duncan..Smalley SiC 2 Smalley HC 5 N synth Alexander HC 5 N SgrB2 Avery ea HC 7 N in TMC1 Kroto HC 9 N in TMC1 Kroto HC 7 N Red Giant Star C 60 Kroto et al Cluster Beam HC 7 N 60 Heath ea C 28 Kroto Carbon Huffman C 60 IR Theory C 60 IR Krätschmer ea C 60 extraction Krätschmer ea Nanotube Endo ac1976 Nanotubes Iijima 1990 C 60 formation Heath 1992 CNT formation Endo Kroto nm UV Hump UV Hump Krätschmer Huffman Graphene 1990 C 60 extraction Hare Taylor nmr C 70 derivative in printed solar cells…Heeger ac 1992 C 60 Ph 5 Cl Taylor ac1976 Fullerene formation Dunk ea gateway Dunk ea 2012 C 60 in space? Kroto Jura 1992 C 60 in space Cami 2010

All that is gold does not glitter Not all those who wander are lost The old that is strong does not whither Deep roots are not reached by the frost

From the ashes a fire shall be woken A light from the shadows shall spring Renewed shall be the blade that is broken The crownless again shall be king

The Stardome …has not just hexagons …but pentagons as well

Radiotelescope in Canada Harry Kroto 2004

Polaroid image of the trace of the first detection of HC 7 N - 10kHz channels Harry Kroto 2004

carbon plasma cluster beam Laser and graphite disk skimmer hole to mass spectrometer Laser Vapourisation Cluster Beam System - Smalley

Crystals of Buckminsterfullerene obtained by Kraetschmer and co-workers

IRC Discovery

NASA Comet image Harry Kroto 2004

Hot gas cloud –the famous Orion Nebulae At the centre is the Trapezium Cluster of very hot new stars Harry Kroto 2004

Fullerene Chemistry ©

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